Wednesday, March 31, 2010

While [today's earlier split-squad] game is ongoing, another squad of Dodgers will fly to Las Vegas, where it will play the Cincinnati Reds in a 7:05 p.m. PT start. Pitching in that game will be four pitchers fighting for jobs -- Josh Towers, Carlos Monasterios, Ramon Ortiz and Justin Miller. Manager Joe Torre will accompany the squad to Las Vegas.

Finally, a slight ray of sanity in the national sports media. ESPN the Magazine published the results of their ZiPS projections (also available on ESPN the Web Site for Insiders only).

The results show the Dodgers winning the NL west 53 out 100 simulated seasons and taking the wild card in 10 others. The Rockies take the division 24 times, D-Backs 20 times and Giant Pandas 3.

Of course, they nearly ruin it by bringing in Tim Kukjian the Columnist for ESPN the Media Conglomerate to argue that the computer is obviously wrong because Brandon Webb has a strained shoulder. I don't get his logic either.